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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
[Document Identifier: CMS–381, CMS–1893
and 1856, CMS–10249, CMS–10264, CMS–
10266, and CMS–855S]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, HHS.
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS), Department of Health
and Human Services, is publishing the
following summary of proposed
collections for public comment.
Interested persons are invited to send
comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the Agency’s function;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
1. Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection;
Title of Information Collection:
Identification of Extension Units of
Outpatient Physical Therapy (OPT)/
Outpatient Speech Pathology (OSP)
Providers;
Use: Medicare requires OPT/OSP
providers to be surveyed to determine
compliance with Federal regulations.
All locations where OPT/OSP providers
furnish services must meet these
requirements. The CMS–381 is the form
used to identify all the OPT/OSP
locations.
Form Number: CMS–381 (OMB#
0938–0273);
Frequency: Yearly;
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Governments;
Number of Respondents: 495;
Total Annual Responses: 495;
Total Annual Hours: 866.
2. Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection;
Title of Information Collection:
Outpatient Physical Therapy Speech
Pathology Survey Report and
AGENCY:
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Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR
485.701–485.729.
Use: The Medicare program requires
OPT providers to meet certain health
and safety requirements. The request for
certification form is used by State
agency surveyors to determine if
minimum Medicare eligibility
requirements are met. The survey report
form records the results of the on-site
survey.
Form Number: CMS–1856 and 1893
(OMB# 0938–0065);
Frequency: Yearly and occasionally;
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Governments;
Number of Respondents: 495;
Total Annual Responses: 495;
Total Annual Hours: 866.
3. Type of Information Collection
Request: New Collection;
Title of Information Collection:
Administrative Requirements for
Section 6071 of the Deficit Reduction
Act of 2005 (DRA);
Use: CMS will use an Operational
Protocol Instruction Guide and template
for the development of Operational
Protocols for the States selected to
participate in the Money Follows the
Person (MFP) Rebalancing
Demonstration. The guide will provide
instruction on the required elements of
the State’s Operational Protocol, which
must be submitted and approved before
a State may enroll individuals in the
State’s demonstration program or begin
to claim service dollars. Section
6071(c)(9) of the DRA requires the States
to provide information and assurances
that total expenditures under the State
Medicaid program for home and
community-based long-term care
services will not be less for any fiscal
year during the MFP demonstration
project than for the greater of such
expenditures for fiscal year 2005 or any
succeeding fiscal year before the first of
the year of the MFP demonstration
project. Accordingly, States are required
to submit Maintenance of Effort (MOE)
forms and MFP Budget forms on an
annual basis. Additionally, in order to
receive enhanced FMAP, States are
required to submit the MFP
Demonstration Financial Forms on a
quarterly basis. Section 6071(g) of the
DRA requires a national evaluation of
the MFP demonstration project and a
final report to the President and
Congress. For the national evaluation,
States will be required to submit semiannual reports that describe their
progress in implementing their MFP
programs and rebalancing their longterm care systems. In addition, States
will be required to submit on a quarterly
basis an MFP Finders File, which will
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participants, and an MFP Services File,
which will include records for each
service funded with MFP grant funds.
(NOTE: This collection package has
been revised since the 60-day Federal
Register notice published on August 31,
2007. The 30-day collection package
includes two additional instruments: (1)
MFP Quality of Life (QOL) Survey; and,
(2) MFP Semi-annual Progress Report.
The MFP QOL Survey is a collection of
qualitative data from MFP participants,
and the MFP Semi-annual Progress
Report is a mechanism for CMS Project
Officers to monitor MFP grantees.)
Form Number: CMS–10249 (OMB#:
0938–NEW);
Frequency: Reporting—Yearly,
Quarterly, Semi-annually and Once;
Affected Public: States, Local or Tribal
Governments;
Number of Respondents: 31;
Total Annual Responses: 360;
Total Annual Hours: 9,360.
4. Type of Information Collection
Request: New collection;
Title of Information Collection:
Medicare Registration Summary and
Medication History Personal Health
Record Evaluation;
Use: In 2006, the American Health
Information Community (AHIC)
Consumer Empowerment Workgroup
(CEWG) made a recommendation to
CMS to pilot programs that measure and
demonstrate the value of Personal
Health Records (PHRs) for patients with
chronic diseases and their clinicians.
For this information collection, CMS
has proposed to evaluate the uptake,
use, and perceived value of a
Registration Summary and Medication
History PHR tool for Medicare Managed
Care and/or Part D Drug Plan
Beneficiaries. Seven commercial health
plans volunteered to integrate the PHR
pilot tool within their existing PHRs,
and these plans are offering the tool to
member beneficiaries at no cost. CMS
will examine how the PHRs were used
by the beneficiaries, caregivers and
providers and if they were perceived to
improve the quality of the beneficiary/
provider communication; timeliness of
preventive screenings; and ease of use
or value of information to individuals
with chronic conditions.
Form Number: CMS–10264 (OMB#
0938–New);
Frequency: Once;
Affected Public: Individuals or
households, Private Sector;
Number of Respondents: 2,167;
Total Annual Responses: 2,167;
Total Annual Hours: 1083.5.
5. Type of Information Collection
Request: New collection;
Title of Information Collection:
Conditions of Participation:
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Requirements for Approval and
Reapproval of Transplant Centers to
Perform Organ Transplants and
Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR
482.74, 482.94, 482.100, 482.102,
488.61;
Use: The Conditions of Participation
and accompanying requirements
specified in the regulations are used by
our surveyors as a basis for determining
whether a transplant center qualifies for
approval or re-approval under Medicare.
CMS and the healthcare industry
believe that the availability to the
facility of the type of records and
general content of records is standard
medical practice and is necessary in
order to ensure the well-being and
safety of patients and professional
treatment accountability.
Form Number: CMS–10266 (OMB#
0938–New);
Frequency: Yearly;
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits and not-for-profit institutions;
Number of Respondents: 514;
Total Annual Responses: 3,270;
Total Annual Hours: 9,334.
6. Type of Information Collection
Request: New collection;
Title of Information Collection:
Medicare Enrollment Application—
Durable Medical Equipment,
Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies
(DMEPOS) Suppliers and Supporting
Regulations in 42 CFR 424.57 and
424.58;
Use: CMS is revising the CMS–855
Medicare Enrollment Applications
Package (OMB No. 0938–0685) to
remove the CMS–855S application from
its collection. CMS has found that the
regulations governing the standards
required of suppliers of durable medical
equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and
supplies (DMEPOS) are revised and
increased more frequently than the
other provider types reimbursed by
Medicare. Consequently, CMS must
revise the CMS 855S application for
DMEPOS suppliers more often than the
CMS 855A, CMS 855B, CMS 855I and
CMS 855R enrollment applications. The
ability to revise the CMS 855S
separately from the other CMS 855
enrollment applications will lessen the
burden on both CMS and the public as
only one subset of suppliers will be
affected by CMS 855S revisions. CMS
intends to maintain the continuity of the
CMS 855 enrollment applications by
using the same formats and lay-out of
the current CMS 855 enrollment
applications, regardless of the
separation of the CMS 855S from the
collective enrollment application
package. The primary function of the
CMS 855S DMEPOS supplier
enrollment application is to gather
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information from a supplier that tells us
who it is, whether it meets certain
qualifications to be a health care
supplier, where it renders its services or
supplies, the identity of the owners of
the enrolling entity, and information
necessary to establish the correct claims
payment.
Form Number: CMS–855S (OMB#
0938–New);
Frequency: Yearly;
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits and not-for-profit institutions;
Number of Respondents: 126,134;
Total Annual Responses: 126,134;
Total Annual Hours: 149,234.
To obtain copies of the supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed paperwork collections
referenced above, access CMS Web site
address at https://www.cms.hhs.gov/
PaperworkReductionActof1995, or email your request, including your
address, phone number, OMB number,
and CMS document identifier, to
Paperwork@cms.hhs.gov, or call the
Reports Clearance Office on (410) 786–
1326.
To be assured consideration,
comments and recommendations for the
proposed information collections must
be received by the OMB desk officer at
the address below, no later than 5 p.m.
on September 22, 2008.
OMB Human Resources and Housing
Branch, Attention: OMB Desk Officer,
New Executive Office Building, Room
10235, Washington, DC 20503, Fax
Number: (202) 395–6974.
Dated: August 14, 2008.
Michelle Shortt,
Director, Regulations Development Group,
Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory
Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
[Document Identifier: CMS–179]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services.
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) is publishing the
following summary of proposed
collections for public comment.
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Interested persons are invited to send
comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the agency’s functions;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
1. Type of Information Collection
Request: Revision of a currently
approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Transmittal and
Notice of Approval of State Plan
Material and Medicaid State Plan—Base
Plan, Attachments and Supplemental
Pages and Supporting Regulations in 42
CFR 430.10–430.20 and 440.167; Use:
The Medicaid State base plan pages and
attachments are documents utilized by
State and territorial agencies which
have the responsibility for
administering the Medicaid program.
The Medicaid State plan is comprised of
‘‘pages’’ and organized by subject matter
which includes Medicaid eligibility
services, payment for services, and
general, financial and personnel
administration. When States seek to
change selected pages of their State
plans, the page(s) are transmitted to
CMS for review and approval by the
CMS Central and Regional Offices prior
to amending its State plan. Form
Number: CMS–179 (OMB# 0938–0193);
Frequency: Once and as needed;
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Governments; Number of Respondents:
56; Total Annual Responses: 4,681;
Total Annual Hours: 9,271.
To obtain copies of the supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed paperwork collections
referenced above, access CMS’ Web Site
at https://www.cms.hhs.gov/
PaperworkReductionActof1995, or Email your request, including your
address, phone number, OMB number,
and CMS document identifier, to
Paperwork@cms.hhs.gov, or call the
Reports Clearance Office on (410) 786–
1326.
In commenting on the proposed
information collections please reference
the document identifier or OMB control
number. To be assured consideration,
comments and recommendations must
be submitted in one of the following
ways by October 21, 2008:
1. Electronically. You may submit
your comments electronically to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
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instructions for ‘‘Comment or
Submission’’ or ‘‘More Search Options’’
to find the information collection
document(s) accepting comments.
2. By regular mail. You may mail
written comments to the following
address: CMS, Office of Strategic
Operations and Regulatory Affairs
Division of Regulations Development,
Attention: Document Identifier/OMB
Control Number llll, Room C4–26–
05, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore,
Maryland 21244–1850.
Dated: August 14, 2008.
Michelle Shortt,
Director, Regulations Development Group,
Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory
Affairs.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
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Medicare and Medicaid Programs;
Announcement of Applications From
Hospitals Requesting Waiver for Organ
Procurement Service Area
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces three
hospitals’ requests for a waiver from
entering into an agreement with their
designated Organ Procurement
Organization (OPO), in accordance with
section 1138(a)(2) of the Social Security
Act (the Act). This notice requests
comments from OPOs and the general
public for our consideration in
determining whether we should grant
the requested waivers.
DATES: Comment Date: To be assured
consideration, comments must be
received at one of the addresses
provided below, no later than 5 p.m. on
October 21, 2008.
ADDRESSES: In commenting, please refer
to file code CMS–1417–NC. Because of
staff and resource limitations, we cannot
accept comments by facsimile (FAX)
transmission.
You may submit comments in one of
four ways (please choose only one of the
ways listed):
1. Electronically. You may submit
electronic comments on specific issues
in this regulation to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for ‘‘Comment or
Submission’’ and enter the filecode to
find the document accepting comments.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
[Document Identifier: CMS-381, CMS-1893 and 1856, CMS-10249, CMS-10264,
CMS-10266, and CMS-855S]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HHS.
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS), Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing
the following summary of proposed collections for public comment.
Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information,
including any of the following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility
of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of
the Agency's function; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
1. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection;
Title of Information Collection: Identification of Extension Units
of Outpatient Physical Therapy (OPT)/Outpatient Speech Pathology (OSP)
Providers;
Use: Medicare requires OPT/OSP providers to be surveyed to
determine compliance with Federal regulations. All locations where OPT/
OSP providers furnish services must meet these requirements. The CMS-
381 is the form used to identify all the OPT/OSP locations.
Form Number: CMS-381 (OMB 0938-0273);
Frequency: Yearly;
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Governments;
Number of Respondents: 495;
Total Annual Responses: 495;
Total Annual Hours: 866.
2. Type of Information Collection Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection;
Title of Information Collection: Outpatient Physical Therapy Speech
Pathology Survey Report and
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Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR 485.701-485.729.
Use: The Medicare program requires OPT providers to meet certain
health and safety requirements. The request for certification form is
used by State agency surveyors to determine if minimum Medicare
eligibility requirements are met. The survey report form records the
results of the on-site survey.
Form Number: CMS-1856 and 1893 (OMB 0938-0065);
Frequency: Yearly and occasionally;
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Governments;
Number of Respondents: 495;
Total Annual Responses: 495;
Total Annual Hours: 866.
3. Type of Information Collection Request: New Collection;
Title of Information Collection: Administrative Requirements for
Section 6071 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA);
Use: CMS will use an Operational Protocol Instruction Guide and
template for the development of Operational Protocols for the States
selected to participate in the Money Follows the Person (MFP)
Rebalancing Demonstration. The guide will provide instruction on the
required elements of the State's Operational Protocol, which must be
submitted and approved before a State may enroll individuals in the
State's demonstration program or begin to claim service dollars.
Section 6071(c)(9) of the DRA requires the States to provide
information and assurances that total expenditures under the State
Medicaid program for home and community-based long-term care services
will not be less for any fiscal year during the MFP demonstration
project than for the greater of such expenditures for fiscal year 2005
or any succeeding fiscal year before the first of the year of the MFP
demonstration project. Accordingly, States are required to submit
Maintenance of Effort (MOE) forms and MFP Budget forms on an annual
basis. Additionally, in order to receive enhanced FMAP, States are
required to submit the MFP Demonstration Financial Forms on a quarterly
basis. Section 6071(g) of the DRA requires a national evaluation of the
MFP demonstration project and a final report to the President and
Congress. For the national evaluation, States will be required to
submit semi-annual reports that describe their progress in implementing
their MFP programs and rebalancing their long-term care systems. In
addition, States will be required to submit on a quarterly basis an MFP
Finders File, which will include eligibility records for all MFP
participants, and an MFP Services File, which will include records for
each service funded with MFP grant funds. (NOTE: This collection
package has been revised since the 60-day Federal Register notice
published on August 31, 2007. The 30-day collection package includes
two additional instruments: (1) MFP Quality of Life (QOL) Survey; and,
(2) MFP Semi-annual Progress Report. The MFP QOL Survey is a collection
of qualitative data from MFP participants, and the MFP Semi-annual
Progress Report is a mechanism for CMS Project Officers to monitor MFP
grantees.)
Form Number: CMS-10249 (OMB: 0938-NEW);
Frequency: Reporting--Yearly, Quarterly, Semi-annually and Once;
Affected Public: States, Local or Tribal Governments;
Number of Respondents: 31;
Total Annual Responses: 360;
Total Annual Hours: 9,360.
4. Type of Information Collection Request: New collection;
Title of Information Collection: Medicare Registration Summary and
Medication History Personal Health Record Evaluation;
Use: In 2006, the American Health Information Community (AHIC)
Consumer Empowerment Workgroup (CEWG) made a recommendation to CMS to
pilot programs that measure and demonstrate the value of Personal
Health Records (PHRs) for patients with chronic diseases and their
clinicians. For this information collection, CMS has proposed to
evaluate the uptake, use, and perceived value of a Registration Summary
and Medication History PHR tool for Medicare Managed Care and/or Part D
Drug Plan Beneficiaries. Seven commercial health plans volunteered to
integrate the PHR pilot tool within their existing PHRs, and these
plans are offering the tool to member beneficiaries at no cost. CMS
will examine how the PHRs were used by the beneficiaries, caregivers
and providers and if they were perceived to improve the quality of the
beneficiary/provider communication; timeliness of preventive
screenings; and ease of use or value of information to individuals with
chronic conditions.
Form Number: CMS-10264 (OMB 0938-New);
Frequency: Once;
Affected Public: Individuals or households, Private Sector;
Number of Respondents: 2,167;
Total Annual Responses: 2,167;
Total Annual Hours: 1083.5.
5. Type of Information Collection Request: New collection;
Title of Information Collection: Conditions of Participation:
Requirements for Approval and Reapproval of Transplant Centers to
Perform Organ Transplants and Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR 482.74,
482.94, 482.100, 482.102, 488.61;
Use: The Conditions of Participation and accompanying requirements
specified in the regulations are used by our surveyors as a basis for
determining whether a transplant center qualifies for approval or re-
approval under Medicare. CMS and the healthcare industry believe that
the availability to the facility of the type of records and general
content of records is standard medical practice and is necessary in
order to ensure the well-being and safety of patients and professional
treatment accountability.
Form Number: CMS-10266 (OMB 0938-New);
Frequency: Yearly;
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits and not-for-profit
institutions;
Number of Respondents: 514;
Total Annual Responses: 3,270;
Total Annual Hours: 9,334.
6. Type of Information Collection Request: New collection;
Title of Information Collection: Medicare Enrollment Application--
Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (DMEPOS)
Suppliers and Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR 424.57 and 424.58;
Use: CMS is revising the CMS-855 Medicare Enrollment Applications
Package (OMB No. 0938-0685) to remove the CMS-855S application from its
collection. CMS has found that the regulations governing the standards
required of suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics,
orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) are revised and increased more
frequently than the other provider types reimbursed by Medicare.
Consequently, CMS must revise the CMS 855S application for DMEPOS
suppliers more often than the CMS 855A, CMS 855B, CMS 855I and CMS 855R
enrollment applications. The ability to revise the CMS 855S separately
from the other CMS 855 enrollment applications will lessen the burden
on both CMS and the public as only one subset of suppliers will be
affected by CMS 855S revisions. CMS intends to maintain the continuity
of the CMS 855 enrollment applications by using the same formats and
lay-out of the current CMS 855 enrollment applications, regardless of
the separation of the CMS 855S from the collective enrollment
application package. The primary function of the CMS 855S DMEPOS
supplier enrollment application is to gather
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information from a supplier that tells us who it is, whether it meets
certain qualifications to be a health care supplier, where it renders
its services or supplies, the identity of the owners of the enrolling
entity, and information necessary to establish the correct claims
payment.
Form Number: CMS-855S (OMB 0938-New);
Frequency: Yearly;
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits and not-for-profit
institutions;
Number of Respondents: 126,134;
Total Annual Responses: 126,134;
Total Annual Hours: 149,234.
To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, access CMS Web
site address at https://www.cms.hhs.gov/PaperworkReductionActof1995, or
e-mail your request, including your address, phone number, OMB number,
and CMS document identifier, to Paperwork@cms.hhs.gov, or call the
Reports Clearance Office on (410) 786-1326.
To be assured consideration, comments and recommendations for the
proposed information collections must be received by the OMB desk
officer at the address below, no later than 5 p.m. on September 22,
2008.
OMB Human Resources and Housing Branch, Attention: OMB Desk Officer,
New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, Fax
Number: (202) 395-6974.
Dated: August 14, 2008.
Michelle Shortt,
Director, Regulations Development Group, Office of Strategic Operations
and Regulatory Affairs.
[FR Doc. E8-19393 Filed 8-21-08; 8:45 am]
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